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DeveloGen: Pax et metabolism

December 7, 1998 8:00 AM UTC

The study of developmental biology, how complex organisms are put together, should provide useful information for putting things back together when organismal functions fail. DeveloGen AG is putting that expectation to the test with therapeutic and diagnostic programs based on gene targets identified through developmental biology.

The company is based on the work done in three developmental systems by its founding scientists: Herbert Jäckle in Drosophila (fruit flies), Wolfgang Driever in zebrafish and Peter Gruss in mice...